Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   Meet the Guy Who Could Once and for All Destroy the Left's Argument Against Putting More Guns in Schools theblaze.com - INDIANAPOLIS — Eric Dietz, Ph.D., the former director of Homeland Security for the state of Indiana and 22-year Army veteran, says he is only interested in one thing when it comes to the debate over stationing armed personnel and teachers in America's schools: saving lives. Now a professor at Purdue University and director of the school's Homeland Security Institute, Dietz could be the guy who — once and for all — destroys the left's argument against putting more guns in schoo...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   Bill Encourages Schools To Teach About Racial Significance Of Obama's Presidency sacramento.cbslocal.com - Get Breaking News First Receive News, Politics, and Entertainment Headlines Each Morning. Sign UpSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A bill that passed the Assembly with unanimous bipartisan support Thursday encourages California schools to teach students about the racial significance of Barack Obama's presidency. The bill by Assemblyman Chris Holden, D-Pasadena, asks state education officials to include Obama's election in history and social studies standards laying out what students are expected to learn. Available on the App Store . ...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   GOP leaders court gun rights activists at NRA meeting msnbc.com - An array of Republican leaders, including several possible presidential contenders, addressed tens of thousands of gun enthusiasts at the National Rifle Association's (NRA) annual meeting in Indianapolis on Friday. But the event often felt more like an outlet for general conservative grievances than a gun-specific rally. "The IRS is now a weapon – a weapon to punish anyone who disagrees with them, and that means every one of you," NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said in his opening speech. "They try to regulate our...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   California Homeowner Shoots Burglar, Salinas, CA. 04/14/14 ammoland.com - KSBW, Santa Cruz, Calif. 04/14/14, KION, Monterey, Calif. 04/14/14 Guns Save Lives A homeowner was asleep at home in Salinas, Calif. when he was awakened to a noise coming from outside the home. The homeowner then spotted someone near his garage. After arming himself, the homeowner went to the garage to investigate and found a burglar. The homeowner shot the burglar, who was then transported to a local hospital. Read more:  http://www.ammoland.com/2014/04/california-homeowner-shoots-burglar-salinas-ca-041414/#ixzz2zzubeote   Under Creative Commons License:  Attributi...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   Husband Defends Wife & Home From Intruder, Houston, Texas, 04/21/14 ammoland.com - USA --(Ammoland.com)- Somewhere, everyday in the USA, 2100+ people use a gun for self defense, to stop a crime or save the lives of themselves or their family. "We believe that the American public deserve to understand that on the average, guns save 2,191 lives and are used to thwart crimes every day," says Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation This is just one of those stories; A husband and wife were asleep at home in Houston, Texas when they were awakened by someone attempting to break in through their front door. The husband responded by retrieving a gu...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   Ron Paul Rewind: A Warning Against Arming the BLM...in 1997! ronpaulinstitute.org - With the continuing rise of SWAT over the following 26 years, the number of armed US government employees continued to grow. According to the bulletin Federal Law Enforcement Officers, 2008 of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, by September of 2008 "federal agencies employed approximately 120,000 full-time law enforcement officers who were authorized to make arrests and carry firearms in the United States," with 255 of them working for BLM. Speaking on the House of Representatives floor on September 17, 1997, then-Rep. Ron Paul warned of the "massive buildup of a virtual ar...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   The beauty of the Second Amendment is... john8322.blogspot.com - By John Sykes. The Second Amendment: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it's short, to the point, clear! It may be the most debated of the Amendments! I'm not going to. This following piece says what needs to be said far better! "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That t...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   Obama's Economic Policies will Bring a Second Great Depression The Foundry - One oddity of the current economic debate is that the more Barack Obama's incompetent income-redistribution policies have failed, the more the left calls for more government-intervention policies to correct for the deficiencies of the earlier rounds. American middle-income families have lost nearly $3,000 in purchasing power since 2007, and the left's only solution to get us out of the rut is more debt, more social-welfare spending, more income redistribution and higher taxes on the rich and big business. Piketty's pri...

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   Christian Couple Sentenced to Death for 'Blasphemous' Texts persecution.net - A Pakistani court has sentenced a Christian couple to death for insulting Mohammed and the Quran. Shafqat Emmanuel, 44, and his wife, Shaguftah, 41, who live in Gojra, Punjab, were convicted on April 4th of sending "blasphemous" text messages. Available on the App Store . John Hames

Shared from Zite   John Hames shared with you:   Gunfight Friday: Mosin-Nagant vs Springfield .30-40 Krag fieldandstream.com - Today's gunfight pits a couple of old warhorses against one another: Russia's Mosin-Nagant versus a Springfield in .30-40 Krag. Both are long-since retired from the battlefield. One sees active use as a deer rifle, the other will become one some day soon. The Mosin-Nagant was continually modified and served as Russia's battle rifle through World War I and World War II until it was replaced by the SKS and AK. It's still in use in some conflicts around the world and it has become ubiquitous in gun stores throughout the ...